Pay & Benefits
Bush sets 2004 pay raise at 2 percent
President Bush issued an executive order on Dec. 30 formally implementing a 2 percent civil service pay raise in 2004, but Congress is poised to grant a significantly higher increase in the pending fiscal 2004 omnibus budget bill.
Tech
On the Move
An inside look at a systems integrator making inroads into the federal technology market.
Management
OMB to ask agencies for long-term job competition plans
OMB will ask agencies to create multi-year plans for opening federal jobs to private sector competition as a prerequisite for receiving a “green” rating in competitive sourcing.
Defense
Feds battle drug traffickers on public lands
Foreign drug cartels are seeing our land as their land, presenting a a growing problem for federal land management and law enforcement agencies.
Defense